Radio stations in Cambridge

Cambridge has a city audience within a larger Cambridgeshire county audience. An edition named for Cambridge may also be relevant outside the city, but its specific urban identity should not be replaced with a generic East of England label. Network programmes can form part of a schedule offered to the city. The useful evidence is the audience a broadcaster says it serves, rather than whether all its presenters broadcast from Cambridge. An academic reputation does not mean a Cambridge station must carry university programmes or specialist speech. Music-led, news and other formats can each have a genuine city edition. Its format should be explained in the individual station profile rather than inferred from the place. The county and the city provide different levels of geographic detail: a Cambridgeshire service may reach a much broader set of communities, while a named Cambridge programme addresses a more particular audience. Both contexts can be shown without claiming that each hour is locally produced.